Southdown Splash Assembly Focuses on Kindness

Southdown Primary School is located on Browns Road in Huntington. (Darin Reed photo.)

December 4, 2018

Southdown Primary School is the midst of a special week emphasizing kindness. It’s an important initiative so care was taken introducing it to students during a recent Splash Award assembly in the gym.

“Last Friday’s Splash Assembly highlighted acts of kindness that students can perform during the holiday season and beyond,” Principal Scott Oshrin said.

Southdown School Splash Award recipients with Principal Scott Oshrin.

Southdown’s “kindness tree” is on display outside the school cafeteria. Students are able to list one act of kindness they performed and display it on the tree. A holiday toy drive is also underway and it will run through December 12. Items collected will be donated to the Family Service League.

Classroom teachers have been given a variety of kindness activities they can complete with their students. “The activities will vary based on grade level,” Mr. Oshrin said. “Examples of kindness will be displayed on bulletin boards outside of classrooms and throughout the school.”

Southdown is the home of the dolphins, the school’s mascot. Students are awarded “splashes” for displaying positive behavior in the classroom and all around the building, including being kind to others, demonstrating proper behavior in hallways and even boosting the spirits of someone feeling a little down.

One Southdown student is selected from each class in the building for formal recognition at the monthly “splash” assembly. The school considers these youngsters to be its “stars of the month.”